Re: Cygwin/rsync/ssh automation problems

2003-10-03 Thread Olivier Kaloudoff
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Josh Endries wrote: >Hey all, > >I have a problem I can't find a solution for. I am on my third day of testing, >researching, planning, and swearing. :) I need to set up a convenient way to >synchronize a bunch of data over the network for backups. The server is >FreeBSD and th

Backing up laptops on network

2003-10-03 Thread Reuben Pearse
Hi all, We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops to a server in a small office (10 users). I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: Install rsync on network server - this is Windows 2000 :-( Share the root of C:\ on laptops Schedule rsync

Re: Backing up laptops on network

2003-10-03 Thread Ron DuFresne
Reuben Pearse wrote: Hi all, We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops to a server in a small office (10 users). I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: Install rsync on network server - this is Windows 2000 :-( Share the root of C:\ on l

Re: Backing up laptops on network

2003-10-03 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:24:59AM -0400, Ron DuFresne wrote: > Reuben Pearse wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops > >to a server in a small office (10 users). > > > >I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: >

Re: Backing up laptops on network

2003-10-03 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Reuben Pearse wrote: > Hi all, > > We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops > to a server in a small office (10 users). > > I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: > > Install rsync on network se

Re: Backing up laptops on network

2003-10-03 Thread 'jw schultz'
I charge for private consultation. How else can i make money? So please keep this on-list until you cheque clears:) On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:10:45PM +0200, Alain Van Bierbeek wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little question about Rsync ... > > Can you say me if is it possible to use Rsync with c

Re: Cygwin/rsync/ssh automation problems

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Thompson
Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Josh Endries wrote: To synchronise files between Windows and unix, you might take a look at Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. (It also works on OSX to some extent, but i

Re: Cygwin/rsync/ssh automation problems

2003-10-03 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:50:45AM -0500, Paul Thompson wrote: > Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: > > >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Josh Endries wrote: > > > > > >To synchronise files between Windows and unix, you might > >take a look at Unison: > > > >http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > > > >Unison is

Re: rsync won't recurse - irix

2003-10-03 Thread Jerry Adlersfluegel
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 08:58 PM, jw schultz wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Jerry Adlersfluegel (CBIZ Tech) wrote: I'm using the binary for irix provided on the site: rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others

Re: Cygwin/rsync/ssh automation problems

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Thompson
JW, Mr. Shultz, whatever you prefer - Thanks for the great advice. Looks like I am going to become a unison user. :) Paul jw schultz wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:50:45AM -0500, Paul Thompson wrote: Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Josh Endries wrote: To synchronise f

Re: Cygwin/rsync Hang Problem Testing Results

2003-10-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Thompson wrote: | 2.4.5 success success 2.4.6 failure failure Funny this is: 2.4.6 is exactly the release where many cygwin-related patches landed in rsync code, as I'm seeing from a diff. (I began packaging rsync on CygWin at 2.4